Comment 4 for bug 420803

> Are there any commit policies one way or the other on the branches being tracked that would tell us the kinds of changes that will be going into them between now and release?

Unfortunately there are not. mesa goes through a set of release candidates during which time commits tend to be mostly bug fixes, but the development efforts are not as strictly formalized as in other projects. -ati has also tended to go through a (short) rc process in recent releases; its process isn't strictly formalized either, but -ati upstream has been good about coordinating with our release schedule dates in previous releases when we've been in this situation.